Five Years

 

G                                   Em

 Pushing through the market square,  so many mothers sighing (sighing, sighing)

A                          C/G

 News had just come over,   we had five years left to crying (crying, crying)

G                          Em

 News guy wept and told us,  earth   was really dying (dying, dying)

A                               C/G

 Cried so much his face was wet,   then I knew he was not lying (lying, lying)

 

         G                                  

 I heard telephones, opera house, my favorite melodies

       Em                                 

 I saw boys     toys    electric irons and T.V.'s

    A                                 

 My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

          C/G                                 

 I had to cram so many things to store,  everything in there

 

                        Am                 C/G 

 And all the fat-skinny people,

                        Am                 C/G 

 and all the tall-short people,

                    G                      C/G 

 and all the nobody people,

                      D7

 and all the somebody people

                                  Am       C/G

 I never thought I'd need so many people

 

   G                              Em

 A girl my age went off her head,    hit some -- tiny children

A                                        C/G

 If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, I think -- she -- might have killed them

G                                       Em

 A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare -- to the wheels -- of a Cadillac

   A                                                   

 A cop knelt -- and kissed -- the feet of a priest,

       C/G

 And a queer threw up at the sight of that

 

G                                         Em

 I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor,  drinking milk shakes cold and long

A                                        C/G

 Smiling and waving and looking so fine,    don't think you knew you were in this song

 

G                                        

 And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor

Em

 And I thought -- of Ma -- and I wanted to get back there

A

 Your face, your race, the way that you talk

C/G

 I kiss you! You're beautiful! I want you to walk!

 

G

 We've got five years, stuck on my eyes!

Em

 Five years, what a surprise!

A

 We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot!

C/G

 Five years, that's all we've got!

 

^^ repeat last verse 3x ^^